Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-30
MODERN JOURNALISM.

WOpStts SSotfNNAioH. .a
a Religious Paper which Devotes toe
Much space to Poetry and too Little
space to Carrsnt Events.
20 the Press and Dakotaian: The
columns Of q daily journal must be filled
Tue columns are filled, Its columns are
open TO wide range Of thought. All
kinds of material inserted AMI some
kinds OF mental and spiritual inquiry
suits. The current news of the day
gossip insane asylum extension, Yankton
insane asylum not extended, Drop re-
ports, educational matters, courts,
frauds, railroads, Jimtown loan sssocla-
tion, ninety thousand Of Yankton funds
which should materialize in extended ac-
commodation for the unfortunate insane
of southern Dakota, tho cause of the
minority of statehood or republican
board of trustees who refuse to resign or
change their politics, or the form OF
"Ohureh" government which sadly calls
for a change, or until there is q general
sweep stakes IL behalf of law and order,
driving the undue partisan feeling to the
wall. If such is the width of the field ex-
tended to thought, you certainly will be-
tray no interest to men nor organizations
il you open your columns to a few open
notes on journals or authors. Publishers
of books or newspapers are not outside
the pen of criticism. While / read in
your late issue of q law interpreted by q
layman who has the boldness to explain
the meaning OF Law in the midst of
judges and lawyers, or to give the mean
ing of the law and the intention of the law
makers when the legislator 10 yet in our
midst. Thus may it not be in the pro-
Vince of a subscriber to q weekly religi-
GUS journal which has o progressive name
to offer q few hints as to what is. proper
in the make up OF a paper. The writer
is fond of poetry, has a passion for Long
fellow, is an ardent admirer Of England's
"poet laureate" oan read by
the hour without firing
thoughts in verse by Holmes, Emerson
Mcdonald and Holland, yet he could
not with ali his love of poetry in its
breathing by its masters regard it as
good taste to have a paragraph Of poetry
at the close of each of o weekly papers
important articles or editorial leaders
all through its fourteen pages. In the
summer of 1879 or 1873 Ralph Waldo
Emerson came to Washington city and
was invited by a professor IN the law
school to meet a few of the trustees,
teachers and law students OF Howard
university and give q talk on how to
send books and what to REID. To listen
to the distinguished essayist the libra
rian of the institution was present. In
the course of the address the speaker
spoke of George Herbert, the poet, and
inquired whether we had such on the
library shelves of the university. The
answer wss given in the negative. The
gifted speaker replied: 81 will do my.
self the honor to furnish the book fol
She university" which promise was
faithfully performed. Yet, good as he
was in his day, 800 years ego, it was not
the living poet Of the g o passing
1t Yves not replete sufficient with life te
warrant in the judgment of the writel
of this notice twenty-eiRht poetica
Quotations at the foot of an equal mum
Der OF articles or book notices, Thu
progressive journal, the Chicago AID.
vance, is writing for 8 living age-th'
would be exponent of the culture of
large and influential denomination o
> christians to take up 80 much preciou
space for the dead 300 years buried
5 when there il SO much of life in tn
}, poetry of others now alive, or who hay
: but recently left US for the better land
80 much truth in accord with inspiration
and human experience. When too thi
same religious newspaper has not spac
enough to publish many articles, shor
D but essential, for the life and prosperit.
of the churches in southern Dakota. 8
these short notices of the prosperity Q
these churches must either be who'll
d crowded out or ruinously CARRIED t
;. give place to swenty-eIght distinc
quotations in a single paper OF fourtee.
d pages to give place to from one to foul
g teen lines from George Spencer. livinI
800 years ago.
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